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11/19/2013 2:54PM

Where Does Online Education Leave Professors?

As higher education moves online, will professors lose their jobs? Daphne Koller, co-founder and co-CEO of Coursera, says, no. Likewise, the quality of education they can provide will improve, if they adapt, Koller said at WSJ's CEO Council in Washington.

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... I ... imagine the entire state ... here are the best thing ... so I mean what it tells about some of the skeptics in what what they say you are what you say ... so I think that they are skeptics from different directions I think part of that on the field call them skeptics all four of the skepticism is driven by fear ... of this is going to put a Cobia Johnson I actually agree with what building in Britt said that that's not ... going to happen I think those who want to transform the role of the anti PD rather than replace the educator ... because what we're going to see his ... students have the opportunity to get the basic content and the basic skills ... in an online format working at their own time and on pace with the ability to achieve mastery rather than ... sitting there in an off the plane with three hundred people ... scribbling madly taking notes as the trying keep up with whatever the instructors currently sign or conversely being born on the line because they ... were ... going to slowly ... and the common across the mainland ... aam and has all of those ... um twenty first century skills that the of me you're from and where is a slow the others are sorely lacking in many of the grandkids that are being used right now ... um ... how do you create age having taken ill for problem formulated its like the honey decide which take me long thought I'd the problem I mean convince ... somebody else the idea isn't going one better than dinners ... and all skills are ones that we currently don't even ... teach her students the most awesome ... and so would the scenes pictures corn gravitating ... more and more away from lecturing in more into what I would call that it will peak and so by Friday none of the ... professors and non spies Sobel dosa out ... what what's the questions here more so than the ones that are hardest to beat this ... so I think some of the questions are based on a misconception of what we're suggesting so there's a lot of people who look at the retention menthols five percent retention rate the ending was talking about earlier and saved us an indication that ... aam did these courses are not engaging in it you can learn a degree online ... to which there is really true answers ... aam first of all being for something that most of the scenes to sign up for one of these courses have no intent and it had been there for the five percent completion make use of the wrong denominator their browsers they're kind of like reading three chapters from not ... from some of the book on that and then this other one is that I think it is important to have a hybrid ... that combines both online and face-to-face ... experiences and whether it be in the context of a ... of the new no formal education like any university or people just getting together ... more than a clean spending bill ... so that skepticism is part of that ... the skepticism but I think it does ... mom very interesting people are saying hold on what about SHINee him identity verification ... ecological question the article Solutions ... I'm happy to talk about that but it's not an interesting and so ... you think the most interesting one is can you teach ... people are effectively online I think the answer to compete more effectively and hybrid form and any other form